youth program

Survival Skills for Jewish Teens

Adolescence is an exciting stage in a child’s life. But it can also be a time of questioning and confusion as a youngster prepares for adulthood.

To maintain the Judaic traditions of one’s family, a child must feel that Jewishness is valuable and worth preserving. The Bureau offers a full range of learning experiences to help kids meet this challenge.

All Bureau Youth Programs embody the following values which guide the behavior and actions of all staff and participants:

Kavod   Respect
Hahnassat Orhim   Welcoming the Guest
Hesed   Kindness
Talmud Torah   Jewish learning
K'lal Yisrael  Community

Our mission is to ensure that everyone in our community can find a path to engaging and meaningful Jewish learning.


Where can we take you today?

Directions to our camp at Brandeis-Bardin Institute

Program Calendar for 5767 (2006-2007) program year: Coming soon!

Want to find out when you'll start Adat Noar next year? How about your next Shabbaton? It's all here! Just need some directions to Tarbut? Try here!

Photo Gallery: Check out all the new pics! Willing to share yours? Email them to [email protected] and we'll get 'em on the website! Don't forget to identify everyone in the photo you can, and when the photo was taken (which program/weekend).

Mitzvah Mania: We've got the best Teen Mitzvah Resource Guide in the hemisphere! Plus photos and much more!

Community Shabbatonim: Whether you're looking for information on the 3rd/4th or 5th/6th, or 7th/8th ...this is the place to be.

8th Grade Values Weekend: This is the preview weekend for the Adat Noar program.  You also help choose the themes for next year's mini-courses.

Adat Noar for 9th graders: It's you. And 200 other 9th graders. Can you imagine? Spend the year exploring and defining your Jewish identity.  Experience the best that Judaism has to offer and form a true "community of youth" (literal meaning of Adat Noar). Sessions held from 2:00 - 5:00pm at Tarbut V'Torah Community Day School Upper School Campus in Irvine. Apply here! Questions? All are answered in the Handbook!

TALIT: You know our  popular Teens are Leaders In Training program prepares 10-12th graders for leadership roles in schools and youth groups, day camps and synagogue schools. But there's more. Much more. If you're prepared. Sessions are held from 5:00-8:30pm at Tarbut's Upper School Campus. Check out a sample TALIT Connections ONLINE. Get the scoop with the  TALIT Handbook.

Panim El Panim:  A unique, living experience that lets students examine Jewish leadership values in action by going "face-to-face" with the nation's leaders in Washington, D.C. 

Mifgash: The Bureau brings 12th graders from Hebrew University High School  to Orange County. They speak in religious schools, public schools and at community panels; they share a special weekend at Brandeis-Bardin with Adat Noar and  TALIT. They touch the lives of all with whom they come into contact and, when they leave, they leave a piece of Israel with us.

Community Shabbaton campers take a break to say hi!

 



Bureau of Jewish Education
of Orange County
One Federation Way, Suite 205
Irvine, CA 92603
Phone: 949.435.3450 Fax: 949.435.3456
E-mail:
[email protected]
http://www.bjeoc.org/

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